#1
Mookyjooky
Work is play...
CAGiversary! 5200 Posts Joined 10.9 Years Ago

Here's what everyone has been waiting for. The beginning! lol. Sorry everyone, and I hope you're all still interested. This is a planning stage of the project, and I just wanted to get it perfect before the beginning... and I've realized something. If you guys are waiting on me to scan, edit and crop the images its gonna take forever. I have a 40-50 hour work week for GE, and a demandning girlfriend and to top it all off I'm an aspiring musician so I'm just too busy to fit this in weekly. So here's the plan.

I'm offering prizes, and I will mentor designers and update the page. "SaurianOverlord" has become my right hand man on this project, and he'll be mentoring and helping as well.

This is how we're gonna lay this project out.

From right now, to Valentines day my goal is 300 covers. I know its a high goal, but the average cover takes anywhere from 30-60 mins to make, and if the front cover of the original saturn game is good enough. It'll take alot less than that.

4. Once you finish, save the image as a "12 (Highest Quality) .jpg" and email the high resolution cover to me at : [email protected]. Make sure that the subject of the email says "Saturn DVD Cover" (without the quotes) so it doesnt get lost in the spam mail. I'm setting up a emailing rule to put those emails in a special folder.

5. I'll post a low res 3d version of it on the site so everyone can see your glory. And you can send me a PM of what 2 covers you want and I'll put them up for you.

6. Every week, Saurian Overlord and I will pick the best of show for that week and I'll post every single cover posted somewhere for that lucky winner to download.

7. On Febuary 14th I will select the grand prize winner. The person to win it all. I'll include the Saturn, and some extra goodies. I keep the goodies a surprise, let me just say that the goodies could be better than the grand prize. Of course, I wont just hand a Saturn over to whoever creates 300 unprintable covers. We're looking for quality scans and covers. If you dont have it, ask for it. If you try hard enough, you'll find a decent clean scan for your covers. Being that its my extra Saturn, I'll be the deciding factor in the end. Dont worry, if you deserve it, you'll get it, and ALL the extra goodies! Thanks!

Nice, I just wish I had more saturn games. The only good games I've been able to find in my area are: Fighting Vipers, Panzer Dragoon, and Shinning the Holy Ark.

I do have one question. When you buy a bunch of thin pack cases, can you buy boxes for them like what they use for a thin pack release of a anime series? It would look neat to have a series together in one of those, like the Shinning, Sega Ages, or Panzer series.

Do you want any scans of covers? I have Panzer Dragoon, Fighting Vipers, and Shinning the Holy Ark. Those are the only good saturn games that I have. I'd help with making covers, but I don't have much talent working with photoshop or the gimp.

Hey I am in on this. Been waiting to get some free time and it has finally come. I have around 130 Saturn games and am backing them all up onto light scribe cd’s. I will be making covers for the cd’s themselves and for the DVD covers. I like the idea for using slim cases and while working on the project I will make cases for slim line and standard cases, also for the multi disk games like panzer dragoon Saga I will be using the STACKpak cases which are the standard PC game cases. Let me know how to get everything I need to get started with this.

Just signed up to CAG to join your project! Read about it on Racketboy's website, and just knew I had to sign up for this great idea! Also your first four covers look fab!

I'm a graphic designer, who also happen to be heavily into retro gaming. I own all the classic console systems, and have just started collecting Saturn games (thank you Darkwater team!). I have good Photoshop skills, and will put my heart and soul into this if everyone else do it as well.

I'd loe to help out on this, I work as an Art Director (15+ years) and have accomplished photoshop skillz. Stay pretty busy with kids, work, and a small business but will try and find some time for this! LEt me know what the next step is.

Hey, i also found this post today via Racketboy! I'd be ecstatic to help. I think the idea is great, and your examples look fantastic. I've done some similar things in Photoshop before (converted some DVD covers to jewel-case-size for DivX CDs; they turned out pretty good if i say so myself), and i'd absolutely love to be part of this project. What do i need to do to join up? I can get started anytime; just need to re-install PS and i'm ready to go!

#26
Mookyjooky
Work is play...
CAGiversary! 5200 Posts Joined 10.9 Years Ago

I'll be burning the first set DVD-Rs tonight, I did a bunch of the work, while I was on my lunch break. It'll be ready to ship soon.

It'll have some really cool treats on it, as well as a collection of images for the current project cycle, and I went ahead and put my currently finished 7 Sega Saturn Slim DVD covers on it, so you can buy the cases and have 7 from the get go!

I'm really excited, and I've put a lot of work into getting this project organized... but now that its got a structure, and it's rolling... it'll be fast paced from here on out!

I hope we get 6 more on this project cycle soon! I cant wait to start getting more people in on this. Even if you dont have a Saturn, or you'll soon be getting one, you'll want to be in on this, cause I'm stuffing the DVD-R I'm sending out. ;-)

I can scan my copy of Fighting Vipers, but I'm not really interested in doing the cover myself. I'm not very talented in this department. Where is a good place to upload those large scans to? I might not have much talent, but I can atleast give you scans of the original covers that I have.

I have several US games, but far more japanese games. I'd be happy to try and contribute some Japanese manual art for any who need them. I'll jump in if I see an item I have on the list.

All is provided. As mooky said in the first post, he has down all the prework, the project is about putting it together. Having 10 people work on 1 cover at a time will make things faster while not losing quality since each person can take their time on one cover. So sign up !

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